Midlothian High School
Spotlight
The MHS debate team traveled to Mesquite Horn High School on Saturday January 14th and won several awards:
Josie Cyrus was awarded the prestigious top speaker of all Lincoln-Douglas debate and finished 6th overall. Lincoln-Douglas debate is using the topic: Access to drinking water ought to be valued as a human right instead of a commodity.
The policy debate topic for this year is: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth's atmosphere. The policy c-x team of Julian Alanis and Kate Pugh finished 5th. Dakota Parish also competed in this team event alone and finished 4th.
The public forum topic being used this month is: Does the cost of a college education outweigh the benefits. In the Public Forum debate the team of Asher Myers and Jonathan Le were undefeated and placed first!
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Student Physicists at Work
MHS student physicists designed and built Rube Goldberg projects that demonstrated their critical thinking, collaboration and problem solving skills. In teams, the students had to use between 10-20 steps by using simple machines such as levers, pulleys and ramps along with combinations of dominoes, tubes and toys to complete a task of turning on a switch or ringing a bell, etc. The good news is that most machines passed the test.
Congratulations to the MHS debate team for their success this past weekend at South Garland High School. The policy debate team of Angie Black and Haley Pierce advanced to the finals to face Collyville Heritage and placed 2nd out of 22 teams.
Tommy Henry competed in Foreign Extemporaneous speaking advanced to semi finals and placed in the top 14 out of 64 speakers. In the picture, Angie Black is on the left and Haley Pierce is on the right.
Congratulations to three Midlothian High School debaters competed in the Local Lion's Club speaking contest. Tommy Henry, Rachel Hurst and Dustin Mayer spoke about rehabilitation and criminalization for drug abusers. Rachel won and will advance to the district contest in January 2012.
The Panther Pride newspaper was named a national 2011 Pacemaker winner at the annual National Scholastic Press Association's fall convention. The Panther Pride was one of only 18 high school newspapers to win this award and one of only three from Texas. Winners were announced on Nov. 19 at the 90th Annual JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Minneapolis. It is the second year in a row the Panther Pride has won this prestigious award.
Newspapers were judged based on coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth reporting, layout and design, and photography, art and graphics. The Pacemaker newspapers were from the 2010-2011 school year.
Midlothian Business students were invited to attend the Distinguished Women's Award Luncheon hosted by Northwood University to learn more about the university and how to become a distinguished business person in today's society.
MHS students enjoy making and selling candles in Mrs. James community-based instruction 11th/12th grade class.
Logan Coomes and Dustin Martin were excited that their boat stayed afloat during the first annual "Float Your Boat Day." Mrs. Hardin's second-year engineering class built boats out of styrofoam, concrete and chicken wire. The students are to be commended for predictability and outcome.
Three MISD students and adult volunteers collected over five bags of trash along Walter Stephenson Rd. and George Hopper Rd. The initiative to Keep Midlothian Beautiful through the Adopt-a-Street Program allows students and community members to work together to keep the local streets litter-free.
"I think people who litter should pick up all of this trash," said Megan Lowe. "Maybe they would think twice before littering again."
National Merit Commended Students
Midlothian High School counselors announced that Andrew Hernandez, Rachel Hurst and Noah Rodgers have been named Commended Students in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSC).
They are among the top 5% of more than 1.5 million students who entered the competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
"These Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding academic potential for academic success," commented Harriette Fowler, MHS counselor administrator. "We hope that this recognition will help broaden their educational opportunities."
Hernandez Named National Hispanic Scholar
(Pictured MHS counselor Melissa Tomlinson, Andrew Hernandez, and principal Dr. Al Hemmle)
Midlothian High School senior Andrew Hernandez has been named a 2011-12 Scholar in the College Board National Hispanic Recognition Program.
The NHRP was established in 1983 by the College Board to provide national recognition of the exceptional academic achievements of Hispanic high school seniors and identify them for postsecondary institutions.
Hernandez entered the College Board sponsored program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as high school juniors and by identifying themselves as Hispanic. To be identified as NHRP Scholars, students must be at least one-quarter Hispanic, have achieved a minimum PSAT/NMSQT/PAA score for their region, and have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
2011 MHS Homecoming Queen, Chelsie Watts and King, Ben Bauer!
MHS students show their "beach" spirit at the first pep rally. Go Panthers!
